From Jim McGuiggan... A CHURCH NOT FAILING ENOUGH

A CHURCH NOT FAILING ENOUGH

We have all those promises from Jesus about our asking “anything” in his name and God will give it. Can you imagine, a God like the God and Father of our lord Jesus Christ and a Lord like the Lord Jesus assuring us that if we ask “anything” in his name he will grant it?

And we, taking him at his word, ask him for what?

We ask advice on…what?

God has given the kingdom to us, we have a new world before us, we have a gospel entrusted to us that brings down castles of rebellion, that tears apart the foundations of forts of evil imagination and despair and we ask for what? We are taught to ask for what?

We’re faced with a world God so loves, a world that’s in darkness and slavery and we ceaselessly ask God to fine-tune our spirituality?

J.A. Stewart said it didn’t trouble him much when he hears people say that the Church is failing. What galls him is that it isn’t failing enough and for the right reasons.

 

It doesn’t engage or attempt to engage in cosmic-sized adventure so when it fails it fails in trivial ways. It is a humble church with a lot to be humble about!

©2004 Jim McGuiggan. All materials are free to be copied and used as long as money is not being made.

Many thanks to brother Ed Healy, for allowing me to post from his website, theabidingword.com